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Army ROTC radio spot - November 13, 2024

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Shauna Johnson: At West Virginia University, Mountaineers go first. Now leading the WVU Army ROTC Mountaineer Battalion as Commander, JT Fetty, a WVU alumnus, Grafton native, and US army sergeant. He returned to the university after serving three years as a combat engineer with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy, a move to the military he made soon after earning his undergraduate degree.

JT Fetty: Thought it'd be a challenge. My dad was in the army and jumped out of airplanes, and I wanted to jump out of airplanes, so I thought it would be cool and just kind of took the leap.

Shauna Johnson: Now Fetty has a new goal.

JT Fetty: I'd like to make at least full Bird Colonel one day.

Shauna Johnson: Reaching that goal will take a lot of years and a lot of experience in the army.

JT Fetty: So since I was enlisted, I made it to the rank of sergeant, E-5, decided I wanted to make bigger decisions in the army and influence more people in the army, so I applied for a program called Green to Gold. It's kind of like a path to becoming an officer, and so I ended up getting accepted for Green to Gold and coming back to WVU to earn a Master's degree and go through the ROTC program.

Shauna Johnson: After initially deciding ROTC was not for him during his first semester at WVU, the highly selective Green to Gold program, limited to a few hundred soldiers across the entire army, now gives Fetty a chance to share real-world military experiences with his more than 100 fellow army ROTC cadets.

JT Fetty: Since I'm a little bit older and I have prior service experiences, I think I have a way of hoping to teach them about being in the army and things you should know in the army and how you should be as a leader.

Shauna Johnson: When he completes his Master's degree in May, Fetty will commission as an officer, taking the next step in his military career.

JT Fetty: WVU has been great to me. I met my wife here, made a ton of friends here, had tons of great experiences. If you're thinking about joining the army and you're in college, don't be afraid to come to the ROTC program, try it out for a semester.

Shauna Johnson: So let's go. Follow our stories at wvutoday.wvu.edu.

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